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Mare Crisium

Mare Crisium /ˈkrɪsiəm/ (Latin, 'Sea of Crises') is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. Mare Crisium is a basin of Nectarian age. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.

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Diameter
556 km (345 mi)
Formation
Nectarian

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Mare Crisium

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related to Characteristics · 20
Mare Crisium → Doppler, Dorsa Harker, Dorsa Tetyaev, Dorsum Oppel, Dorsum Termier, GRAIL, It, Lick, Lunar Orbiter, Lunar Prospector, Mare Anguis, On, Peirce, Picard, Proclus, Promontorium Agarum, Swift, The, These, Yerkes
related to Names · 20
Mare Crisium → Britain, Brittania, By, Caspian Sea, Earth, Europe, Ewen, Giovanni Riccioli, Langren, Like, Michael, Middle East, Moon, Moon's, North Africa, Pierre Gassendi, The English, Thomas Harriot, Whitaker, William Gilbert's
related to Views · 19
Mare Crisium → Apollo, At, Cleomedes, Command Module America, EarthThese, Eimmart, Greaves, Location, Low-altitude, Mare Anguis, Moon, Peirce, Proclus, Promontorium Agarum, Revolution, Shapley, Swift, The, These
related to In popular culture and literature · 10
Mare Crisium → Arthur, Clarke, Clarke's, In, In Warhammer, Mare, Silence, Sisters, Somnus Citadel, The Sentinel
related to Observation and exploration · 10
Mare Crisium → Apollo, August, Earth, It, July, Luna, Moon, Moon's, Soviet, Soviet Luna
related to External links · 5
Mare Crisium → High, LRO, Mare Fecunditatis, Seán Doran, YouTube
Coordinates · 1
Mare Crisium → .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…
Diameter · 1
Mare Crisium → 556 km (345 mi)
Formation · 1
Mare Crisium → Nectarian
is a · 1
Mare Crisium → basin of Nectarian age

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mare crisium crater lunar moon near nectarian earth visible moon's just basin diameter km ring western east northwest seen center

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Mare CrisiumCoordinates.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…1.00infobox
Mare CrisiumDiameter556 km (345 mi)1.00infobox
Mare CrisiumFormationNectarian1.00infobox
Mare Crisiumis abasin of Nectarian age0.90text
Lunar Prospectorinstance ofThe mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters0.80text
GRAIL.Topographic mapGravity map based on GRAIL NamesLike most of the other maria on the Mooninstance ofThe mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters0.80text
Mare Crisium was named by Giovanni Riccioliinstance ofThe mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters0.80text
whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized.By the 17th centuryinstance ofThe mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters0.80text
Mare Crisium had acquired the name 'Caspian Sea'instance ofThe mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters0.80text
being labelled as such by Thomas Harriotinstance ofThe mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters0.80text
Pierre Gassendiinstance ofThe mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters0.80text
Michael van Langreninstance ofThe mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters0.80text

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